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Flashpoint’s researchers studied the ransom notes and fond whoever wrote it was likely either “native or at least fluent” in Chinese.

Out of the 28 different notes, the security firm said only two Chinese character versions and the English version were written by a human.

The other 25 notes appear to have been an English note that was put through Google Translate.

In a blog post, Flashpoint said: “Analysis revealed that nearly all of the ransom notes were translated using Google Translate and that only three, the English version and the Chinese versions (Simplified and Traditional), are likely to have been written by a human instead of machine translated.

“Though the English note appears to be written by someone with a strong command of English, a glaring grammatical error in the note suggest the speaker is non-native or perhaps poorly educated.

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The WannaCry ransom note in English. It is believed others were translated using Google Translate

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“Flashpoint found that the English note was used as the source text for machine translation into the other languages.

“Comparisons between the Google translated versions of the English ransomware note to the corresponding WannaCry ransom note yielded nearly identical results, producing a 96 per cent or above match.”

Flashpoint added that the English ransom note was almost perfect except for “a glaring grammatical error” which suggests “the speaker is non-native or perhaps poorly educated.”

The security firm added: “The two Chinese ransom notes differ substantially from other notes in content, format, and tone.

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“Google Translate fails in both Chinese-English and English-Chinese tests, producing inaccurate results that suggests the Chinese text was likely not have been similarly generated by the English text.

“A number of unique characteristics in the note indicate it was written by a fluent Chinese speaker.

“A typo in the note, “帮组” (bang zu) instead of “帮助” (bang zhu) meaning “help,” strongly indicates the note was written using a Chinese-language input system rather than being translated from a different version.”

The WannaCry ransomware cyber attack hit the NHS and users in 150 countries.

The malicious software is used by hackers to block access to a computer system until a ransom is paid.

WannaCry locks the data on a computer system and leaves the user with two files: instructions on what to do and the Wanna Decryptor programme.